Southron Sr.
06-28-2010, 12:20 PM
This past weekend at the Brierfield, Alabama Skirmish my Sharps misfired on my third shot in the Carbine Team Matches. I have owned and shot this carbine for 16 years and it NEVER misfires!
After firing several more caps with no effect (in other words, no 'KER-BOOM), the carbine was cleared at the end of the event and then the breechblock disassembled to see what the trouble was.
The culprit was a very compressed piece of cartridge paper blocking the flashhole of my Aampco nipple! This has to be a 1 in 10 Million occurance because my cartridge paper usually completely burns up 100% of the time!
It is hard to imagine an unburned piece of cartridge paper flying completely through the flash channel in the breech block (and making some rather sharp turns) until it hit the flashole in the bottom of the nipple and then wadding up, blocks it!
OH Well! I guess strange things happen sometimes.
P.S. MANY THANKS TO THE 20TH GEORGIA FOR HOSTING A FABULOUS SKIRMISH!
After firing several more caps with no effect (in other words, no 'KER-BOOM), the carbine was cleared at the end of the event and then the breechblock disassembled to see what the trouble was.
The culprit was a very compressed piece of cartridge paper blocking the flashhole of my Aampco nipple! This has to be a 1 in 10 Million occurance because my cartridge paper usually completely burns up 100% of the time!
It is hard to imagine an unburned piece of cartridge paper flying completely through the flash channel in the breech block (and making some rather sharp turns) until it hit the flashole in the bottom of the nipple and then wadding up, blocks it!
OH Well! I guess strange things happen sometimes.
P.S. MANY THANKS TO THE 20TH GEORGIA FOR HOSTING A FABULOUS SKIRMISH!